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Laugh/screech/just-open-your-mouth-and have-no-noise-come-out-of-it out loud funny. Hysterical. Like watching an Always Sunny blooper reel, the laughter is involuntary. I don’t think it is, but even if this was an act by Brett Phillips, keep it up and never stop.

The caption on that second video clip pretty much sums it up perfectly. “Laughs like a streaming video that freezes but the sound keeps going.”

To top it off, turns out Phillips is kind of a boss. Former 6th round pick, was a Top 10 prospect in the Astros organization before being sent to Milwaukee in the Carlos Gomez trade. He’s battling to start in center field for the Brewers this year, and his name is Maverick Phillips on Twitter. Play on, playa.

Baseball

Kansas City Royals combine Epilepsy Awareness Night with fireworks show

January 29, 2016 Ai Leave a comment

From nydailynews.com:

“Boom!

The Kansas City Royals are hosting Epilepsy Awareness Night on August 5 — the same evening they’re planning a massive fireworks display.

The World Series champions have Summer Fireworks scheduled after all Friday home games, but clearly the team needs to rethink their game plan.”

Well that’s one way to do it.

No better way to raise awareness for a disease than trying to get as many people who suffer from it in a single location, then do something that is a well-known trigger for it. That’s what I always say.

Our investigative team here at Bottlegate managed to round up some of the other ideas that apparently didn’t make it past the Royals Marketing Team’s cutting room floor:

Obesity Awareness Night featuring dollar hot dogs
Anti-Bullying Night, first 1,000 fans get free mini bat
Alcoholics Anonymous Night, first beer free with purchase of ticket
Throwing out the first pitch at Bark at the Park night – Michael Vick
Hypochondria Awareness Night with promotional medical kit giveaway
Kids Run the Bases presented by Subway
Here to perform the National Anthem on Prostate Cancer Awareness Night, Kanye West!
Lucky to have NFL Broadcaster Phil Simms here in the booth with us on Deaf Awareness Night
Native American Heritage night at Progressive Field

And before I could post this puppy, the Royals decided they would rather their fans not be aware of epilepsy.

Before it gets changed (maybe), the Royals plan to host Epilepsy Awareness Night and have fireworks that same night. pic.twitter.com/L6lolgnN0E

— Justin Sampson (@JustinLSampson) January 29, 2016

The Internet always wins.

PS Their new spring training caps are a lot cooler than having Epilepsy Awareness Night on a fireworks night

You know how sometimes in life there are things you want to hate but you can't pic.twitter.com/FGe8NtJ5JU

— Bottlegate (@Bottlegate) January 29, 2016

Alcohol, Baseball

Royals vs. Mets World Series Drinking Game

October 27, 2015 Ai Leave a comment

(By the time you’re reading this it’ll probably be game 2 since everyone will be watching the Cavs opener tonight but we’re nothing if not punctual here at Bottlegate)

For the 64th time in the past 68 years, the Cleveland Indians will not be playing in the World Series. But I love baseball, and I’ll be DAMNED if I let that stop me from enjoying the Fall Classic. As always, bring us in Johnny!

Ladies and gentlemen, your second annual Bottlegate World Series Drinking Game! The New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals square off in game 1 tonight at 8:07 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. I usually play a different drinking game when I’m watching a game that Harold Reynolds is announcing (it’s called “drink”), but this is certainly a special occasion. So without further adieu…

Take a sip when…

Alex Rodriguez talks about being old
Someone mentions an “unwritten rule”
The hair of Jacob deGrom or Noah Syndergaard is shown/talked about
- Healthy gulp if it’s both at the same time
Yoenis Cespedes or Johnny Cueto is referred to as a “rental”
Reynolds says something you can easily disprove using basic reasoning and logic
Anyone mentions how close the Cubs came/that they’ll be back next year/for years to come
A Royals batter gets a hit on a fastball
A Royals batter strikes out
Jerry Seinfeld shown

Healthy gulp if…

Matt Harvey and “innings limit” are mentioned in the same sentence
Any announcer implies or flat out says that David Wright deserves a World Series title
Thor’s hammer is shown in any way
A Statcast graphic is used
Announcers debate whether or not a player flipped his bat after a HR
- Finish your drink if the Jose Bautista bat flip is shown
Yordano Ventura hits a batter
The broadcast shows weird iPad guy
Jerry Seinfeld interviewed
Jim Breuer video is mentioned/shown

Stories you must drink from start to finish during:

Wilmer Flores crying at the trade deadline
Royals fan SungWoo Lee from South Korea
Steven Matz growing up a Mets fan
The trials and tribulations of David Wright

Finish your drink

David Murphy hits a home run
(Repeat from last year) Alex Gordon concusses himself
Mets pitcher knocks a run in
20-year-old Royals rookie shortstop Raul Mondesi makes his major league debut in the World Series
Harold Reynolds makes a joke about “Matz” sounding like “Mets”

and finally….